Digital Supplement to the Exhibition Catalogue

Life is a Time-Based Medium,2015

Museum, theater and temple

Once again working with an animal whose history with humanity is fraught, I filmed a troop of
rhesus macaques who live in the cliffs above a temple to the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, just
outside of Jaipur, India. Rhesus monkeys, known in the West as the frequent subjects of torturous
scientific experiments, are sacred in Hindu culture and allowed to run wild among visitors to the
temple. The architecture of the temple is a facade built up against a stone cliffside—an exterior
without an interior. In this installation, I give it an interior, accessible though a door into the
temple of the monkey god. When looking closely at the projection, we see a viewer in a theater coming
face to face with the image of her animal-other. Architecture in image and the architecture of
installation are two concerns of my work: I examine the spaces inhabited by animals and those inhabited
by humans, as well as how these intersect. The space within the image, the space of the temple, and the
space of the museum itself merge in this seemingly simple installation.